## Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been classified into eight genotypes and can be further divided into several subgenotypes that have different geographic distributions. Because of increased human migration, the prevalence of rare subgenotypes is increasing in Japanese patients with acute hep
393 CHANGING OF GENOTYPES AND MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SPREADING SUBGENOTYPE AE OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS AMONG PATIENTS WITH ACUTE HEPATITIS B IN JAPAN
β Scribed by Y. Tamada; H. Yatsuhashi; K. Yano; M. Nakamuta; N. Masaki; E. Mita; T. Komatsu; Y. Watanabe; T. Muro; M. Shimada; T. Hijioka; T. Sato; A. Komori; S. Abiru; K. Migita; M. Nakamura; H. Fujioka; H. Ishibashi
- Book ID
- 117379538
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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